Abstract:
Developments of steel pipe market and present state of tube billet and seamless tube Production in foreign countries are described,The world steel pipe market does not show a good situation but the horizontal continuous casting technology for tube billets has been successfully developed. The seamless steel pipe production technology now has stepped to a new level through incorporating new type Piercing mills into all kinds of rolling mills and developing shell wall thickness inspection under high temperature and multi-destructlve inspection technology.